Primghar, IA is a small town in O'Brien County with a population of around 800 people. Politics in Primghar, IA are fairly typical for a small rural community. The mayor is elected every four years by the residents and is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of the town. Primghar also has an elected City Council that meets on a monthly basis to discuss and approve policy proposals. Primghar's local politics are not focused on any particular party or ideology, but instead favors solutions that will benefit all citizens regardless of political affiliation. Primghar has no local candidates running for office in the near future, but some of the issues that are important to its residents include economic development, public safety, health care, and education. Overall, Primghar's politics center around creating a better quality of life for all who live there.
The political climate in Primghar, IA is strongly conservative.
O'Brien County, IA is very conservative. In O'Brien County, IA 20.8% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 77.6% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.6% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, O'Brien county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 77.6% to 20.8%.
O'Brien county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Primghar, IA is strongly conservative.
O'Brien County, Iowa is very conservative.
Iowa is leaning conservative.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index is based on recent voting in national elections, federal campaign contributions by local residents, and consumer personality profiles.
VoteWord™
Displaying 20 years of Presidential voting, visualized in one word.
Primghar, Iowa: R R R R R R
How It Works:
Here at BestPlaces, we were looking at the voting patterns since the 2000 election and realized that we could express the results of each election as one letter. R if the Republican Party candidate won, D if the Democratic Party candidate won and I if the Independent Party candidate won. The six elections (2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020) would be expressed as six-letter word (R R D R R).
Then we went a little further and added the dimension of magnitude. If the difference of victory was greater than 10 percent, the letter is upper case, and lower case if the difference was less than 10 percent. This allows us to see interesting voting patterns at just a glance.
Here's the VoteWord for Iowa d r d d r. In the last six elections the state has been closely contested, voting narrowly for the Republican Party candidate in 2016 and 2020 after voting for the Democratic Party in 2008 and 2012. Virginia (r r d d d D) has voted for the Democratic Party in the last three elections.
Individual Campaign Contributions in Primghar, IA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 8 contributions totaling $216 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $27 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 20 contributions totaling $1,900 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $95 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)